Michele Pasin / Quotes

Much of reality is bundle-like

it’s worth remembering just how much of reality is bundle-like. Atoms are not solid objects but bundles of electrons, neutrons and protons. A plant is a complicated system, not a simple thing. Cars only exist as an assemblage of parts. The internet is a network, not an object that can pinned down in time and space.

Saved 23 April 2015

#bundle-theory #reality #whole #objects

Constitutive ontologies = second path

In following the second path the observer assumes, quite differently, that the starting point must be the constitutive biological phenomena of being unable to…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #observer #objects #perception #illusion #reality #living

Digital humanities as a curriculum

So, if the dig­i­tal human­i­ties is, nei­ther in fact nor in prin­ci­ple, a dis­ci­pline, then what is it? Surely, with its grow­ing army of fol­low­ers and…

The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer #fact #basis #one #whole #domain

Expressions (frbr)

This class comprises the immaterial realisations of individual works at a particular time that are regarded as a complete whole. The quality of wholeness…

Frbr: Object-oriented Definition And Mapping To Frbr-er (version 1.0.1) #self #work #whole

Schrödinger: you are all in all

Then there is the other, complementary, side of the picture as presented by the eminent biophysicist Erwin Schrödinger: It is not possible that this unity of…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #being #sense #whole

Are computations real or epistemic tools?

In philosophy, cognitive science, and, more broadly speaking, in computer science, there is a divide between those who believe that computations underlie…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #computation #information #reality #philosophy-of-mind

Distrusting reality after frequent trips

Robert and Kristian were using LSD so often during this time that they said they had a hard time trusting the non-LSD reality they experienced even when they…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #reality #perception